WHIDBEE OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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WHIDBEE, Aurelia WALLACE 1840 - n/a

Death of Mrs. D. B. Whidbee - Aurelia Wallace was born Dec. 25, 1840 in Anderson 
County, Tennessee. During the Civil War she came with her people to Johnson 
County Mo. and was married to Davis B. Whidbee, the first Sunday in October, 
1865. To this union were born six children: Thomas R. of Clinton, William J., 
Misses Luda J. and Fannie R. and Mrs. Hannah E. Wall, all of Tulsa, and Mrs. Nancy 
A. Mason of Kansas City. Five of these survive her. She joined the Methodist 
church at Hickory Grove in 1874 and lived a quiet, devoted Christian life being 
gloriously converted after her marriage. She leaves six living grandchildren. Her 
husband preceded her in death, having died in 1892. Her funeral was conducted by 
Rev. Emery of Hickory Grove church assisted by Rev. Denton of Leeton in the 
Hickory Grove church. Interment in Hickory Grove cemetery.


WHIDBEE, Davis B. 1840 - 1892

On Sunday evening, January 10, 1892, at about 4 o'clock, all that was immortal of 
Davis B. Whidbee took its flight to the realms of peace and rest. Being attacked 
by la grippe and pneumonia, which developed in heart and brain trouble, his final 
illness was of only a week's duration. for three days he was unconscious and 
without pain or agony, he quietly breathed one last lingering sigh and sank to 
sleep. Deceased was born January 12, 1840 in Southampton county, Virginia; he 
lacked but tow days of reaching his fifty-second year. While yet his infant eyes 
were solving natures mystic wonders, his widowed mother taking her four small, 
but loving sons moved to East Tennessee. Here the pleasant days of youth were 
spent, and in his twentieth year he professed his unfailing belief in the cause of 
Christ, which was never shaken until death. He enlisted in the Union Army August 
7, 1861, where he served as Sargent of company C Second regiment, Infantry 
Volunteers, and was discharged from service October 6, 1864, at Knoxville, 
Tennessee. Coming to Missouri in the spring of 1865, he was on the first of 
October of that year married to Miss Amelia Wallace, of Johnson county. Early in 
1868 he came to Henry county, and from among it all, chose the old homestead as 
the abiding place for himself and family. Soon after moving to this county he 
joined the methodist church (South) at Hickory Grove, where he lived a faithful 
member until his death. With him, the first death in the family, the bond of life, 
the unbroken link is severed. His loving wife with six fond and sustaining 
children are left in that sorrowing home. His neighbors and numerous friends, all 
severely miss him, and deeply deplore his going. His only brother and two half 
sisters, of Tennessee, could not be present at the last sad rites. A true friend, 
unswerving in kindly justice to his fellow man, an earnest Christian, firm in his 
belief of the redeeming principles of Christianity; with hear often softened by 
its outpouring to suffering man; and the lustre of his eye often brightened 
beneath the potent touch of some act of kindness, he was to all that knew him, a 
friend that is hard to lose. He is gone, gone to his home to rest, gone - as in life 
he expressed it, to meet his Savior and prepare a welcome for the loved ones left 
behind. In Wiley graveyard he was laid to rest there, where the Sylvan warbler 
shall ever sing its low refrain and anon, the Southern zephyr shall rustle its 
requiem in memory of him, noble in life, triumphant in death. - A Friend

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